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Year
Beyond the narrative: a workflow for 3D restitution of built heritage
2024
The Missing Camera or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oblique Projection
2024
Relics of Electronic Hallucinations. Gazing at Early Computational Fluid Dynamics Drawings from Los Alamos Nuclear Research Center
2024
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2024
Rules, A Short History Of What We Live By, A book by Lorraine Daston
2024
Survey and characterisation of the archaeological landscape of Lovo
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Restitution
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Hypothesis
2024
TV Show: 3D Digitization and Built Heritage Preservation
2024
Drawing air: the evolution of the representation of air in architectural drawing from the industrial revolution to the present
2023
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2023
Analysis, Systems & Composition
2023
Code Tracing
2023
Maison du Peuple full scale experience on its original site
2023
From projection to building and vice versa
2023
Emergence of pre-digital algorithmic design
2023
Comparing Randomness
2023
Anthropic Units in Baroque Architecture, the Gallery of the Palazzo Spada and the Roman Palm
2023
Workshop Glyph
2023
Re-presentation as an analytical tool in Baroque Architecture
2022
Crossed Experimentations of Low-Altitude Surveys For The Detection Of Buried Structures
2022
Chamber Music Hall of Horta's Palais des Beaux-Arts: 3D Hypothesis
2022
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Algorithmic Music II/II
2022
Misreading, once again...
2022
Perspectives on Dwelling : Architectural Anthropologies of Home
2022
Workshop (fig.22)
2022
Towards a multi-scale semantic characterization of the built heritage
2021
De l'incarnation de la protoarchitecture
2021
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Algorithmic Music I/II
2021
Noise
2021
(Close) Reading Morphosis
2021
Jeu d’échelles / échelles du jeu
2021
Pohlke: One-Click Standard Orthographic and Oblique Projection Cameras
2021
Workshop (fig.)
2021
Perspectiva Virtualis
2021
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2020
Exploitation des numérisations pour l'analyse urbaine en contexte archéologique
2020
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - The Algorists
2020
Urban Planning Representation
2020
Projection built into Sketchpad III: origin of a critical field in computer graphics
2020
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2019
Exploitation de numérisations hétérogènes pour la représentation et l'analyse d'un site archéologique de grande échelle : Pachacamac 1532
2019
Relecture de vocabulaires d’architecture : apport de la complexité des représentations numériques dans la caractérisation de formes architecturales
2019
Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis
2019
Architectural Analysis and Graphic Representation - Morphosis in the 1980s
2019
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Medley II/II
2019
Histoires de Représentation
2019
Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis
2019
Building Drawings : Decoding and Recoding the Graphic Projection Algorithm in Architectural Representation
2019
Places Royales Françaises. Réflexion d’une logique d’édification à travers une corrélation entre une analyse sémantique et un signal géométrique
2018

Education in Architectural Analysis through Hybrid Graphic Means: a Setup for Critical Thinking

Contribution to the 2014 Design Communication Association Conference (DCA): Design & Graphic Palimpsest [Dialogue-Discourse-Discussion], Southern Polytechnic State University, Atlanta GA, October 2014.

Abstract:
Created in 1994, AlICe – Computer Laboratory for Conception and Image in Architecture – is a teaching and research unit treating issues related to architectural analysis, architectural representation and graphic communication. Besides research projects, the laboratory aims since 20 years at educating students to a critical understanding of contemporary architectural representation, using both traditional and digital media within a framework deeply rooted in history and theory. The field of experimentation for this educational project is architectural analysis since the examination of an existing architectural object (built or not) constitutes an ideal starting point for a student to start challenging his understanding of architectural representation, pristine from design ideologies. Students proceed to examination of compositional grammars and formal vocabularies, and postulate analytical interpretations by understanding and exploring several media, conventions or projection techniques, regarding their specificities. They are likely to combine pencil sketching, 3d modeling, filming, 3D printing, photogrammetric data acquisition or even procedural scripting for well-documented experimentations of canons of architectural representation. By focusing on the meaningful relationship between architectural discourse and a set of adequate – sometimes customized – media, they set up an analytical critical thought linked to a graphic outcome.

Projects form the following students are featured in this article: Arthur Lachard, Youssef El Jachemi, Emar Essaadouni, Hicham Benjelloum, Eléonore David, Raphaël Padovani.

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